R Porter

• The burden of choice and the triumph of the event

  Open Access•R Porter•ARTICLE•Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory•2021

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  In the anthropology of ethics there has been a growing interest in the concept of freedom, defined as the tool of consciousness that enables people to reflect on themselves and their circumstances, and make decisions about what they ought to do. The benefit of understanding freedom as a grounded ethical practice is that it allows us to appreciate how people constitute themselves through the choices they make. What this obscures, however, is an un…

• Science/fiction

  Open Access•R Porter•ARTICLE•Excursions Journal•2020

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  Reflecting about 4.1. Science/Fiction (2013)

• Security against the State in Revolutionary Yemen

  Open Access•R Porter•ARTICLE•Cultural Anthropology•2020•Citada por: 3•Referências: 4

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  What does security look like when it is deployed against rather than by the state? Focusing on the 2011 revolution in Yemen, this essay hints at a number of ways in which the revolutionaries sought to outwit the machinations of state securitization by taking security into their own hands

• Freedom, Power and the Crisis of Politics in Revolutionary Yemen

  R Porter•ARTICLE•Middle East Critique•2017•Citada por: 7•Referências: 7

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  In the study of revolutionary events, it is often assumed that 'political crisis' attests to the failure of revolutionary ideals. Accordingly, revolution is understood as the pursuit of political consensus and the institutionalization of freedom and equality at the level of the state. In contrast, this article describes how, during the recent revolution in Yemen, revolutionaries actively negated proposals for a 'political solution.' It explores h…

• Mixed-Mode Contacts In Web Surveys

  R Porter, Stephen R Porter et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2007•Citada por: 20•Referências: 11

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  Journal Article Mixed-Mode Contacts In Web Surveys: Paper is Not Necessarily Better Get access Stephen R. Porter, Stephen R. Porter e-mail:Address correspondence to Stephen R. Porter; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael E. Whitcomb Michael E. Whitcomb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 4, Winte…

• Archibald Keverall McIntyre 1913–2002

  R Porter, Uwe Proske et al.•ARTICLE•Historical Records of Australian…•2004

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  Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science

• Medical futures

  R Porter, Roderick A Porter•ARTICLE•Interdisciplinary Science Reviews•2001

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  This paper examines forecasts made by writers, medical and non-medical alike, as to the nature of medicine in future societies. In particular, starting from Plato and Sir Thomas More, it explores what place (if any) has been envisaged for medicine in a utopian society. By way of an explanatory device, predictions concerning medicine are compared and contrasted with expectations as to the role of the sciences, natural and social. Investigation of …

• The Hell Fire Clubs

  R Porter•ARTICLE•Journal of Social History•2001

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  Journal Article The Hell Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. By Geoffrey Ashe (Stroud, Gloucs: Sutton Publishing, 2000) Get access Roy Porter Roy Porter Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 35, Issue 2, Winter 2001, Pages 489–490, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2001.0134 Published: 01 December 2001

• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1998

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  SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Unit for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 450, February 1998, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.450.274 Published: 01 February 1998

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  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1997

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  Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 763–764, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.763 Published: 01 June 1997

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  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1997

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  Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 445, February 1997, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.445.220 Published: 01 February 1997

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  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1997

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  SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 822-a–822, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.822-a Published: 01 June 1997

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  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1996

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  SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 440, February 1996, Pages 208-a–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.208-a Published: 01 February 1996

• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1996

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  Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 743–744, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.743 Published: 01 June 1996

• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1996

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• Ecological strategies of prevention in rural community development

  Open Access•R Porter, Robert A Porter•ARTICLE•The Journal of Primary Prevention•1983

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• Using community development for prevention in Appalachia

  R Porter, Robert A Porter et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•1982•Referências: 1

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  This article presents community development as a strategy for achieving goals of prevention in small communities in Appalachia. The authors emphasize the organization of social structures and collective efforts in problem solving as a way of reducing stress, altering lifestyles, and enhancing levels of physical and mental health in these vulnerable communities

• States and estates

  R Porter, C R Whittaker•ARTICLE•Social History•1976

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  Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (New Left Books, 1974) and Lineages of the Absolutist State (New Left Books, 1974)

• The Asafo System in Historical Perspective

  Open Access•Ansu K Datta, R Porter•ARTICLE•The Journal of African History•1971•Citada por: 33•Referências: 4

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  There has been some controversy as to the origins of the Asafo , the patrilineal military bands of the coastal Akan, and especially of the Fante, in Ghana. One view holds that the asafo system is indigenous to Fante society, the other that its development is in some way connected with the presence of Europeans on the coast from the end of the fifteenth century onwards. After an examination of the nature of the asafo system and of its patrilineali…

• Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

  R Porter, Ottobah Cugoano•ARTICLE•African Historical Studies•1970

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• Interoceptive S D of the Large Intestine Established by Mechanical Stimulation

  Open Access•Henry Slucki, F McCoy et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•1969

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  A rhesus macaque monkey, surgically prepared with a Thiry-Vella large intestinal loop, was trained to press a lever for sugar pills on an FR 24 schedule of reinforcement. Operant discrimination was then established through differential reinforcement of the response in the presence of an interoceptive stimulus. The S D consisted of rhythmic inflation-deflation (with air at 120 mm. Hg pressure) of a small latex balloon situated in the loop. The ons…

• Placement of adult retardates from state institutions in community care facilities

  Open Access•B Jeanne Mueller, R Porter•ARTICLE•Community Mental Health Journal•1969

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• English Chief Factors on the Gold Coast, 1632-1753

  R Porter, Robert P Porter•ARTICLE•African Historical Studies•1968•Citada por: 1

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  The list presented below is intended to bridge the most obvious gap of its sort yet remaining in our knowledge of European governors and chief administrators on the Gold Coast. Claridge was able to provide serviceable (though incomplete and sometimes inaccurate) lists of Dutch governors from 1624, of Danish governors from 1698, and of English governors from 1751;1 and Furley left us his valuable, though provisional, list of Portuguese governors f…

• The Crispe Family and the African Trade in the Seventeenth Century

  Open Access•R Porter•ARTICLE•The Journal of African History•1968•Citada por: 6•Referências: 2

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  Nicholas Crispe (1598–1666) played a very important part in the developing of English trading contacts with West Africa in the seventeenth century. He obtained a commanding position within the African company in 1628 and did much to secure the company's reconstitution on a sounder basis in 1631. From 1631 until 1644 Crispe was the driving force behind the trade and, in particular, directed and largely financed the successful English entry into th…

• Crisis intervention and social work models

  Open Access•R Porter, Robert A Porter•ARTICLE•Community Mental Health Journal•1966•Citada por: 2•Referências: 1

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• The Asafo System in Historical Perspective

  Open Access•Ansu K Datta, R Porter•ARTICLE•The Journal of African History•1971•Citada por: 33•Referências: 4

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  There has been some controversy as to the origins of the Asafo , the patrilineal military bands of the coastal Akan, and especially of the Fante, in Ghana. One view holds that the asafo system is indigenous to Fante society, the other that its development is in some way connected with the presence of Europeans on the coast from the end of the fifteenth century onwards. After an examination of the nature of the asafo system and of its patrilineali…

• Mixed-Mode Contacts In Web Surveys

  R Porter, Stephen R Porter et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2007•Citada por: 20•Referências: 11

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  Journal Article Mixed-Mode Contacts In Web Surveys: Paper is Not Necessarily Better Get access Stephen R. Porter, Stephen R. Porter e-mail:Address correspondence to Stephen R. Porter; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael E. Whitcomb Michael E. Whitcomb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 4, Winte…

• Freedom, Power and the Crisis of Politics in Revolutionary Yemen

  R Porter•ARTICLE•Middle East Critique•2017•Citada por: 7•Referências: 7

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  In the study of revolutionary events, it is often assumed that 'political crisis' attests to the failure of revolutionary ideals. Accordingly, revolution is understood as the pursuit of political consensus and the institutionalization of freedom and equality at the level of the state. In contrast, this article describes how, during the recent revolution in Yemen, revolutionaries actively negated proposals for a 'political solution.' It explores h…

• The Crispe Family and the African Trade in the Seventeenth Century

  Open Access•R Porter•ARTICLE•The Journal of African History•1968•Citada por: 6•Referências: 2

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  Nicholas Crispe (1598–1666) played a very important part in the developing of English trading contacts with West Africa in the seventeenth century. He obtained a commanding position within the African company in 1628 and did much to secure the company's reconstitution on a sounder basis in 1631. From 1631 until 1644 Crispe was the driving force behind the trade and, in particular, directed and largely financed the successful English entry into th…

• Security against the State in Revolutionary Yemen

  Open Access•R Porter•ARTICLE•Cultural Anthropology•2020•Citada por: 3•Referências: 4

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  What does security look like when it is deployed against rather than by the state? Focusing on the 2011 revolution in Yemen, this essay hints at a number of ways in which the revolutionaries sought to outwit the machinations of state securitization by taking security into their own hands

• Crisis intervention and social work models

  Open Access•R Porter, Robert A Porter•ARTICLE•Community Mental Health Journal•1966•Citada por: 2•Referências: 1

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• English Chief Factors on the Gold Coast, 1632-1753

  R Porter, Robert P Porter•ARTICLE•African Historical Studies•1968•Citada por: 1

  Incluir item

  The list presented below is intended to bridge the most obvious gap of its sort yet remaining in our knowledge of European governors and chief administrators on the Gold Coast. Claridge was able to provide serviceable (though incomplete and sometimes inaccurate) lists of Dutch governors from 1624, of Danish governors from 1698, and of English governors from 1751;1 and Furley left us his valuable, though provisional, list of Portuguese governors f…

• Experimental Gastroduodenal Lesions Induced by Stimulation of the Brain

  John D French, R Porter et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•1957

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  The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effect upon the stomach and duodenum of chronically applied stimulation to the visceral brain stem. Experiments were performed on 60 monkeys in which stimulation currents were delivered to the hypothalamus and surrounding regions for periods of 30 to 86 days. A test group of 19 animals which received adequate stimulation was compared with control groups of 20 monkeys which received insufficien…

• Some Experimental Observations on Gastro intestinal Lesions in Behaviorally Conditioned Monkeys

  R Porter, R W PORTER et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•1958

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  Eleven of 19 monkeys used in chronic psychological-conditioning experiments developed gastrointestinal disease. Although the program for each animal was different, for the most part experiments were directed toward a study of emotional behavior. Among the lesions found were gastric hemorrhage and erosion, duodenal ulceration, enteric intussusception, and chronic colitis. In a controlled study of a single behavioral procedure (avoidance behavior),…

• Crisis intervention and social work models

  Open Access•R Porter, Robert A Porter•ARTICLE•Community Mental Health Journal•1966•Citada por: 2•Referências: 1

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• English Chief Factors on the Gold Coast, 1632-1753

  R Porter, Robert P Porter•ARTICLE•African Historical Studies•1968•Citada por: 1

  Incluir item

  The list presented below is intended to bridge the most obvious gap of its sort yet remaining in our knowledge of European governors and chief administrators on the Gold Coast. Claridge was able to provide serviceable (though incomplete and sometimes inaccurate) lists of Dutch governors from 1624, of Danish governors from 1698, and of English governors from 1751;1 and Furley left us his valuable, though provisional, list of Portuguese governors f…

• The Crispe Family and the African Trade in the Seventeenth Century

  Open Access•R Porter•ARTICLE•The Journal of African History•1968•Citada por: 6•Referências: 2

  Incluir item

  Nicholas Crispe (1598–1666) played a very important part in the developing of English trading contacts with West Africa in the seventeenth century. He obtained a commanding position within the African company in 1628 and did much to secure the company's reconstitution on a sounder basis in 1631. From 1631 until 1644 Crispe was the driving force behind the trade and, in particular, directed and largely financed the successful English entry into th…

• Interoceptive S D of the Large Intestine Established by Mechanical Stimulation

  Open Access•Henry Slucki, F McCoy et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•1969

  Incluir item

  A rhesus macaque monkey, surgically prepared with a Thiry-Vella large intestinal loop, was trained to press a lever for sugar pills on an FR 24 schedule of reinforcement. Operant discrimination was then established through differential reinforcement of the response in the presence of an interoceptive stimulus. The S D consisted of rhythmic inflation-deflation (with air at 120 mm. Hg pressure) of a small latex balloon situated in the loop. The ons…

• Placement of adult retardates from state institutions in community care facilities

  Open Access•B Jeanne Mueller, R Porter•ARTICLE•Community Mental Health Journal•1969

  Incluir item

• Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

  R Porter, Ottobah Cugoano•ARTICLE•African Historical Studies•1970

  Incluir item

• The Asafo System in Historical Perspective

  Open Access•Ansu K Datta, R Porter•ARTICLE•The Journal of African History•1971•Citada por: 33•Referências: 4

  Incluir item

  There has been some controversy as to the origins of the Asafo , the patrilineal military bands of the coastal Akan, and especially of the Fante, in Ghana. One view holds that the asafo system is indigenous to Fante society, the other that its development is in some way connected with the presence of Europeans on the coast from the end of the fifteenth century onwards. After an examination of the nature of the asafo system and of its patrilineali…

• States and estates

  R Porter, C R Whittaker•ARTICLE•Social History•1976

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  Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (New Left Books, 1974) and Lineages of the Absolutist State (New Left Books, 1974)

• Using community development for prevention in Appalachia

  R Porter, Robert A Porter et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•1982•Referências: 1

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  This article presents community development as a strategy for achieving goals of prevention in small communities in Appalachia. The authors emphasize the organization of social structures and collective efforts in problem solving as a way of reducing stress, altering lifestyles, and enhancing levels of physical and mental health in these vulnerable communities

• Ecological strategies of prevention in rural community development

  Open Access•R Porter, Robert A Porter•ARTICLE•The Journal of Primary Prevention•1983

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• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1996

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  SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 440, February 1996, Pages 208-a–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.208-a Published: 01 February 1996

• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1996

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  Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 743–744, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.743 Published: 01 June 1996

• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1996

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• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1997

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  Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 763–764, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.763 Published: 01 June 1997

• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1997

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  Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 445, February 1997, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.445.220 Published: 01 February 1997

• Shorter Notices

  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1997

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  SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 822-a–822, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.822-a Published: 01 June 1997

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  R Porter•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•1998

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  SHORTER NOTICES Get access ROY PORTER ROY PORTER Wellcome Unit for the History of MedicineLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 450, February 1998, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.450.274 Published: 01 February 1998

• Medical futures

  R Porter, Roderick A Porter•ARTICLE•Interdisciplinary Science Reviews•2001

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  This paper examines forecasts made by writers, medical and non-medical alike, as to the nature of medicine in future societies. In particular, starting from Plato and Sir Thomas More, it explores what place (if any) has been envisaged for medicine in a utopian society. By way of an explanatory device, predictions concerning medicine are compared and contrasted with expectations as to the role of the sciences, natural and social. Investigation of …

• The Hell Fire Clubs

  R Porter•ARTICLE•Journal of Social History•2001

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  Journal Article The Hell Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. By Geoffrey Ashe (Stroud, Gloucs: Sutton Publishing, 2000) Get access Roy Porter Roy Porter Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 35, Issue 2, Winter 2001, Pages 489–490, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2001.0134 Published: 01 December 2001

• Archibald Keverall McIntyre 1913–2002

  R Porter, Uwe Proske et al.•ARTICLE•Historical Records of Australian…•2004

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  Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science

• Mixed-Mode Contacts In Web Surveys

  R Porter, Stephen R Porter et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2007•Citada por: 20•Referências: 11

  Incluir item

  Journal Article Mixed-Mode Contacts In Web Surveys: Paper is Not Necessarily Better Get access Stephen R. Porter, Stephen R. Porter e-mail:Address correspondence to Stephen R. Porter; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael E. Whitcomb Michael E. Whitcomb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 4, Winte…

• Freedom, Power and the Crisis of Politics in Revolutionary Yemen

  R Porter•ARTICLE•Middle East Critique•2017•Citada por: 7•Referências: 7

  Incluir item

  In the study of revolutionary events, it is often assumed that 'political crisis' attests to the failure of revolutionary ideals. Accordingly, revolution is understood as the pursuit of political consensus and the institutionalization of freedom and equality at the level of the state. In contrast, this article describes how, during the recent revolution in Yemen, revolutionaries actively negated proposals for a 'political solution.' It explores h…

• Science/fiction

  Open Access•R Porter•ARTICLE•Excursions Journal•2020

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  Reflecting about 4.1. Science/Fiction (2013)

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